APPENDIX E
SOME ANACHRONISMS
Can we blame all these out sequences on “archaeologic serendipity” (as does Ashley Montagu1)? Or would it be more truthful to admit, with Jeffrey Goodman, that “such turnabouts . . . stand in direct opposition to the continuous developmental processes Darwinians espouse”?2
COMPARISON OF EARLY AND LATE HOMINIDS | ||
Where | Earlier Hominid/Remains | Traits Compared to Later Specimen |
Australia | Lake Mungo remains | AMH, with smaller faces, jaws, brows than Kow Swamp H. erectus |
China Jinniushan hominid | Less archaic skull than later Dali Man | |
France | Fontéchevade Man | More modern skull, face, 1,470 cc, lighter build than later Neanderthal |
Iraq, Shanidar | H. neanderthalensis | Less prognathous than later Neanderthals |
Israel | Qafzeh Cave remains | AMH, 20 kyr older than Amud Neanderthal |
Java | Sangiran/H. erectus | Much smaller and lighter skulls than Ngandong |
Java | Solo Man/H. erectus | Temporal bone more mod than Neanderthal |
Kenya | ER 1470/H. rudolfensis | More advanced than H. habilis and H. erectus, bigger brain than younger Au, flatter face, weaker brow than ER 1813 |
Kenya | ER 3883/H. ergaster | Less robust and more delicate skulls than H. erectus (such as OH9) |
Kenya | Kanapoi hominid/Au. anamensis | More modern foot and humerus than later Sterkfontein, Olduvai, and Lucy Au |
Kenya | Turkana Boy and ER 3733/ H. ergaster | Less robust than later H. erectus |
Spain, Atapuerca | H. antecessor | 1.2-myr skull with 1,390 cc larger than 800-kyr skull with 1,000 cc |
UK, Swanscombe | Swanscombe Man/H. erectus | More H. sapiens features than later Neanderthal |